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HLTH 1020 - Personal and Community Health

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course explores contemporary health and wellness and implications for the individual, family, and community. The course emphasizes general health topics designed to stimulate critical thinking and awareness of where responsibility lies in the promotion of health in the home and community.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Relationship of personal and community health
  2. Healthy lifestyles
  3. Psychological health and stress
  4. Physical fitness
  5. Nutrition and weight management
  6. Cardiovascular disease
  7. Cancer and chronic conditions
  8. Infectious disease
  9. Personal safety
  10. Six dimensions of health
  11. Holistic health, health promotion, wellness
  12. Community health organizations
  13. Environmental concerns

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Acquire the necessary information to take charge of their own health, wellness, and safety.
  2. Define cancer and the specific steps individuals can take in the prevention and detection of cancer.
  3. Define holistic health, health promotion, and wellness.
  4. Describe chronic conditions related to physical health.
  5. Describe the characteristics and benefits of becoming physically fit.
  6. Describe the characteristics of psychologically healthy people.
  7. Explain the following health concepts and how they potentially influence their personal lives and the lives of their family: wellness, stress, emotional and psychological health, nutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, personal safety, and environmental health.
  8. Explain ways to create a healthy environment.
  9. Identify how health affects your lifestyle.
  10. Identify the relationship of personal health and community health.
  11. List the six dimensions of health.


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